I would just like to congratulate the youngest of my three fantastic children for getting two credits for her first semester of her MBA post-graduate course! What's that? you ask. Isn't she the one who left high school in year ten to do voluntary work? The one who did not finish high school or do uni and is now doing a post graduate degree? Yep! He says with great repect for her accomplishments, that one! Congratulations Cadienne!

It's at times like these that I am surprised, nay, in awe, at how well our three turned out despite the imperfect parenting they received. Makes one realise how resilient and unique is the human spirit. Physically you could barely tell them apart at birth yet they all have incredibly high capabilities in completely different areas.

My eldest daughter Teal wrote me: "Jarrod came over yesterday and Shianne and Nahla did a performance with a circuit that was straight from the seal show at the zoo. I love this pic as Shianne is soooooo happy in it! Take special note of the handmade zookeeper's food pouch on the hip!"

The Goal of Psychiatry

I read a post on 200 psychiatric patients dying this year alone just in Victoria and I got to thinking of all I have read on the abuses of psychiatry and how best to summarise and communicate it.

The goal of psychiatry is not, as is presumed, to improve the patient. Their goal is to control. Their modus operandi is (through imprisonment, straight jackets, lobotomies and drugs) the restraint of unwanted motion. Someone moves in a fashion unacceptable to them and they want to stop it. Stillness is the goal.

"See." they say, "he's not twitching any more. We've fixed him."

Not twitching? HE'S NOT MOVING!

How still can you be?

Dead!

Their physical and chemical restraints are unfortunately all too often deadly.

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Taking Pfizer's drug to help you stop smoking may light the fuse on a health time bomb for you.

Researchers analyzed data from 14 clinical trials, involving 8,216 patients. They concluded that the drug was associated with a 72 per cent increased risk of hospitalization due to serious cardiovascular events, such as heart attack, arrhythmia or stroke. The findings were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Lead researcher Professor Curt D. Furberg, said, "We have known for many years that Chantix is one of the most harmful prescription drugs on the US market, based on the number of serious adverse effects reported to the FDA. It causes loss of consciousness, visual disturbances, suicides, violence, depression and worsening of diabetes. To this list we now can add serious cardiovascular events."

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People who use more olive oil are at less risk for stroke than people who don't. But for cooking, use coconut oil. It is the only oil that does not change molecular structure when it is heated.

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Guiseppe's Secret to a Happy Marriage

At St. Peter's Church in Toronto, they have weekly husband's marriage seminars.

At the session last week, the priest asked Giuseppe, who said he was approaching his 50th wedding anniversary, to take a minutes and share some insight into how he had managed to stay married to the same woman all these years.

Guiseppe replied to the assembled husbands, "Well, I trya to treat her nicea, spenda da money on her, but besta of all is, I tooka her to Italy for the 25th anniversary".

The priest responded, "Giuseppe you are an amazing inspiration to all the husbands here. Please tell us what you are planning for your wife for your 50th anniversary?"

Kirk Nugent - "Pursue Your Passion"

If you watch no other video I send you, watch this one. Kirk has put into words the powerful message I would like to convey to every kid leaving school. Help me out - spread this far and wide! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UK-fcfalsw